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Featured Article from Contemporary Accounting Research

 

Gong, J., Van der Stede, W., Young, M. (2011). Real Options in the Motion Picture Industry: Evidence from Film Marketing and Sequels. Contemporary Accounting Research, 28(5), 1438-1466.

 

Abstract: Analyzing decisions using the real options framework has been attracting increasing interest. Real options create an opportunity for firms to postpone a business decision and provide executives with flexibility to react to outcomes that arise under conditions of uncertainty. Real options reasoning recognizes that executives incur costs and invest in stages based on new information and are faced regularly with the alternative of continuing to invest in, or abandoning, projects. In this paper, we use project-level data from the U.S. motion picture industry – an industry filled with uncertainty – to test predictions from the real options framework. Specifically, we focus on two real options facing a film studio: the abandonment option of whether to halt marketing after a film’s opening weekend, and the growth option of whether to invest in a sequel. We also test, and find support for, the prediction that studios incur higher production costs for sequels than for nonsequels. In summary, our findings suggest that cost incurrence in settings characterized by highly uncertain investment payoffs that involve staggered resource commitments is consistent with conjectures based on real options reasoning.

 

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Gong, J. (2011). Examining Shareholder Value Creation over CEO Tenure: A New Approach to Testing Effectiveness of Executive Compensation. Journal of Management Accounting Research, 23(1), 1-28.

 

Gong, J., Van der Stede, W., Young, M. (2011). Real Options in the Motion Picture Industry: Evidence from Film Marketing and Sequels. Contemporary Accounting Research, 28(5), 1438-1466.

 

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Alali, F. (2011). Audit Fees and Discretionary Accruals: Compensation Structure Effect. Managerial Auditing Journal,
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Alali, F., Anandarajan, A., Jiang, W. (2011). The effect of corporate governance on firm’s credit ratings: further evidence using governance score in the United States. Accounting and Finance, DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-629X.2010.00396.x, 1-20.

 

Badua, F. A., Sharifi, M., Watkins, A. L. (2011). The Topics, They Are A-Changing: The State of the Accounting Information Systems Curriculum and the Case for a Second Course. Accounting Educators' Journal, XXI(2.011),89-106.

 

Chavis, B., Sharifi, M. (2011). Internal Auditing Education Partnership (IAEP): An essential response to IA's role in corporate governance. Internal Auditing, 26(4), 17-24.

 

Grant, G. H., McDonald, P., Sharifi, M. (2011). The Strategy Audit. Internal Auditor, LXVIII(VI), 37-40.

 

Grant, G. H., Moffett, R. (2011). Internal Controls and Fraud Prevention. Internal Auditing, 26(2), 3-12.

 

Mande, V., Son, M. (2011). Do audit delays affect client retention? Managerial Auditing Journal, 26, 32-50.

 

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Wright, K. (2011). States versus Obama's Healthcare Law. State Tax Notes, 60,659-669.

 

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